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| ConfusedTorchic 07/16/23 10:24:27 PM #33: | adjl posted... And if I've chosen to buy a Playstation over an Xbox because it offers more exclusives that interest me in addition to being able to play CoD with friends, and Playstation stops having CoD, that means I need to spend more money to keep play CoD with friends and also enjoy the exclusives that interest me. That's anti-consumer. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80509290/974871931 rejoice. adjl posted... Also, when was the last time a noteworthy game was made "for the specific hardware capabilities of a single platform"? Aside from Kinect/Move/VR stuff, Playstation, Xbox, and PC have been more or less functionally identical to each other since 2001, and when Nintendo's been trying to do their own thing with unique hardware and games that take advantage of it, much of the market writes it off as meaningless gimmicks (which is true, in many cases) and they get excluded from most multiplat releases. sony had an entire gen pretty much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor) straight up there were ps3 exclusives that literally can't run on anything except a ps3. it's the reason why we haven't seen metal gear solid 4 outside of it, for example. adjl posted... Well no, because that would be you pulling a random possibility out of your ass, whereas I'm actually trying to put some thought into why Microsoft believes putting CoD on Nintendo platforms will be beneficial when ABK did not.about that https://www.vgchartz.com/article/457676/bobby-kotick-regrets-not-bringing-call-of-duty-to-the-switch adjl posted... Step 1: Add game to 6 new platforms with 47 total users https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80509290/974871931 adjl posted... You say you haven't suggested CoD is leaving Playstation, yet you keep talking about how Sony is going to lose it or won't be able to rely on it.the three examples you quoted still don't imply that i ever said it would be leaving call of duty. but the bigger response to this dumb statement is here https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80509290/974883248 adjl posted... More than that, whether CoD is leaving Playstation in the foreseeable future or not, it's hopelessly naive not to recognize that threat. With this merger, some of the most lucrative third-party franchises in the industry are now in Microsoft's hand as a bargaining chip, and both Microsoft and Sony know full well just how valuable that is (which is why Microsoft is willing to spend $69 billion on it and Sony doesn't want them to). That will be leveraged to give Microsoft an advantage, most likely in ways that yield zero benefit to consumers and will likely actually make the market worse in terms of direct impact. so, here's the part where i tell you that the c suite in playstation don't even think it's an exclusivity play, they said it's a play for the king part. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23769790/sonys-playstation-chief-microsofts-activision-deal-xbox-exclusives-ftc sony values the king part of activision-blizzard-king at 50b alone. many people assumed this would be a bethesda situation, but there's very distinct differences. bethesda releases one game every many years or so, and the maryland studio specifically only does large, single player role playing games. those going exclusive makes a lot more sense than, say an annual game that comes out every single year, and is guaranteed to make an assload of money on every platform it's on. you do not massively kill your revenue from that. no. what you do is expand it even further and make even more money. for reference, was elder scrolls online removed from other platforms? was fallout 76? was minecraft? no. why? they all make money by simply existing as live service games. cutting profit streams doesn't make any sense. --- "It's not the harm to Sony we care about. " - US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley to the FTC. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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